Police sh0t and k!lled the school shooter in Nashville, and the moment was caught on video. Audrey Hale, a former student of the private Christian school who identified as a transgender male, k!lled three students aged nine and three adults before being apprehended.
Officer Rex Engelbert’s body camera shows him firing several times at Hale with a rifle before the bad guy falls to the ground hurt. The police then move toward the 28-year-old, who is only a few meters away, shouting “move, move” and “watch out, watch out.”
The attacker, who is now on the ground, is hit by a few more police gunsh0ts before an officer yells “stop moving, stop moving” at the suspect, whose arm is still moving, making it look like the k!ller is still alive.
One officer yells “throw your hands away from the gun, get your hands away from the gun,” while another says “suspect down, suspect down.”
Then, Hale’s dead body is shown lying next to the weapons, including a rifle, that the attacker used in the deadly attack on the second floor of the Covenant School in Tennessee on Monday morning.
In a second clip, Officer Michael Collazo’s body cam shows what happened from a different point of view. In the second round of sh0ts, after Hale was already on the ground, he is seen firing his pistol at Hale.
Minutes before, the police had rushed into the building, and video showed that some of them went from empty classroom to empty classroom before getting to the second floor.
NBC News has also talked about the Bodycam footage that shows how Nashville police responded to a school sh00ting. You can find this on YouTube –
Multiple gunsh0ts can be heard in the video as officers run down a hallway, past what looks like a victim, and into a lounge area where the suspect is seen falling to the floor after being sh0t. Police said that the suspect was k!lled after getting into a fight with them.
Officer Engelbert gets a rifle out of the trunk of his car at the beginning of the six-minute police video. A staff member then directs him to the front door and tells him that the school is locked down, but at least two kids are still missing.
“Let’s go! I need three!” the officer yells as he uses a key to unlock a door and enter the building, where alarms can be heard ringing. Officials said that Hale was a “lone zealot” who lived in Nashville and was armed with two assault-type weapons and a handgun.
Hale had a manifesto and detailed maps of the school and entered the building by shooting through its doors before the k!llings.
The six casualties were identified as nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, 61-year-old substitute teacher Cynthia Peak and school custodian Mike Hill, and the headteacher Katherine Koonce, age 60.
